Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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